:43:00
Now, I'll be in in a minute,
and if you're not in bed, I'll...
:43:04
I'm terribly sorry, Mr McGinty. They have no
business coming to this part of the house.
:43:09
The only thing I'm sorry about is...
:43:13
...they had to see me like this.
:43:51
But how can the city
even contemplate a municipal bus line,
:43:55
when it has a 99-year contract with me?
:43:58
A contract that you may even remember
something about, Mr Mayor.
:44:02
Look, Mr Maxwell,
:44:04
I'm only the mayor, see?
:44:05
Now, if it was up to me, I'd make you
a free gift of all the bus rides to this city.
:44:11
I think you run a beautiful bus.
:44:14
I travel on them myself.
:44:17
And I'll be genuinely sorry
to see them disappear from our streets.
:44:21
Disappear?
:44:23
But there must be some way,
:44:25
some solution of mutual satisfaction.
:44:29
I don't know how to talk to a mayor,
:44:32
but if I could only persuade you that...
:44:35
You can't persuade me, Mr Maxwell.
:44:38
Because it's entirely out of my hands.
:44:41
But I'll tell you what I'll do.
:44:43
Just for old times' sake, I'll send
the chairman of the bus committee up,
:44:47
and if you can persuade him,
it's all right with me.
:44:50
Is he er...
:44:52
difficult to persuade?
:44:54
Well, he probably ain't impossible.
:44:58
- Glad to see you looking so well.
- But, Mr Mayor, can't we...